Nelson Condos - Reviews and Rates

Another lazy day! We have definitely started to decompress after the craziness of the last month. We drove the famous Queen Charlotte Drive, which is a slow windy road along the inlets/sounds with jaw-dropping views left and right. The road dead ends and then you can walk 55 KM of foot paths along the shore. We did a few KM of walking through ra...

Tis Christmas Eve, and throughout the Internet Caf Not a creature was stirring, except the overly loud Germans sat behind me. Aye, here we are in lovely Nelson, officially the sunniest place in all of New Zealand. Go on.....take a guess.....yes, it's raining!! But that's not always been the case and, in fact, we've actually been rather lucky wit...

In Nelson angekommen sind wir zufällig über eine nette Kneipe gestolpert, in der es Erdinger Weißbier vom Fass! gab! Sturtzbetrunken haben wir dann leider die Mondfinsternis versäumt. Um den Kater los zu werden sind wir am nächsten Tag Golfen gegangen. NZ ist nach Kanada das dichteste Land an Golfplätzen. Hier spielt jeder Golf. Wir haben uns da...

Woke up very early in the hope to see the sun rise, but it was a bit cloudly on the eastern horizon so didn't hang around for too long. Especially as we were faced with a 6 hour walk back to the start of our kayaking. And that would be 6 hours on kiwi power walking...woo hoo! The walk out wasn't as good as the kayaking, the track headed inland q...

Bit of catch up episode this one so details are sketchy. Let me take you back, way back... (picture wobbly screen) Once upon a time there was a car full of scummy flat residents and an allegedly fixed Subaru. We headed down to have a look at Mt Cook for the weekend, the forecast wasn't meant to be that good but then we're in NZ so it wasn't wort...

Everyday is a public holiday in New Zealand. No, really, every day between Dec 25 and Jan 1 is a public holiday here. That means that all restaurants that bother to open are charging 10-20% surcharges to cover the extra expense of having to pay their employees 250% of their normal wages. The 250% daily wage also means that hotels are enforcing t...